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New York / Los Angeles

Gillian Wearing

(British, born 1963)

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Gillian Wearing

Wearing Mask, 2021

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Gillian Wearing

Lockdown Portrait 16, 2020

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Gillian Wearing

Diane Arbus, 2021

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Biography

Timeline

1963
Born Birmingham, United Kingdom.
1985 - 1987
received B. TECH Art & Design fromChelsea School of Art
1987 - 1990
Received B.A. (Hons.) Fine Arts fromGoldsmiths' College, University of London
1993
BT Young Contemporaries
1997
Turner Prize
1998
For 2 into 1, Oberhausen Short Film Festival
Prize of the Ministry of Employment, Social Affairs and Urban Development, Culture and Sport
2002
received British Television Advertising Award, Public Service: Gold
2007
received Grazia o2 Award for Art
Royal Academician

Exhibitions

2012
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, touring to K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (solo)
2011
People, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (solo)
Worlds on video, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
You are my mirror 1: Je t'aime, moi non plus, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
Tarantula, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Print the Legend: Contemporary Art and the Western, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Irish Museum of Modern Art” Obras Fundamentales, Sala Kubo-Kutxa, San Sebastian
EXISTENCIAS, MUSAC, León, Spain
History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Public Collections

South London Gallery, London
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
The Government Art Collection, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
The British Council, London
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
ARC, Paris
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton

Literature

2016
McGivern, Hannah. “What does an emotion look like? London’s National Portrait Gallery gets abstract with Howard Hodgkin show”, The Art Newspaper, September 29, 2016, [online]
“Gillian Wearing”, VICE, August 2016, Vol. 23 No.5, p. 96-97
“Photographer and Video Artist Gillian Wearing Takes a Self-Portrait While Wearing a Mask of Her Own Face”, VICE, August 30, 2016, [online]
“Artist Gillian Wearing Presented With Birmingham City University Honour”, Artlyst, July 26, 2016
Yates, Emily. “Brighton Festival: Exploring new directions in theatre and the visual arts”, Brighton & Hove Independent, June 3, 2016, [online]
“Gillian Wearing: ‘You see what connects us all, as well as our differences’”, AN, May 10, 2016, [online]
Seymour, Tom. “Gillian Wearing’s A Room with a View at Brighton’s HOUSE Festival”, British Journal of Photography, May 9, 2016, [online]
Seymour, Tom. “Organ Vida announce open call with high-profile judges for ‘Revelations’ theme”, British Journal of Photography, April 22, 2016, [online]
Evans, Jodie. “Artist Gillian Wearing invites you to join in her latest video projects by donating a clip of your view”, House to Home, April 7, 2016, [online]
“As seen from your window…”, The Guardian, April 4, 2016, [online]
Cornell, Lauren and Eccles, Tom. “Invisible Adversaries”, CCS Bard Hussel Museum, 2016 p. 280 -282
Bodick, Noelle. “Highlights from the Art Show 2016”, BlouinArtInfo, March 1, 2016, [online]
Holloway, Henry. “Got a room with a view? Award winning artist wants help for Brighton Festival project.” The Argus. March, 11, 2016, [online]
Lesser, Casey. “A More Diverse ADAA Art Show Suggests a Sea Change at the Revered Fair”, Artsy, March 2, 2016, [online]
Pogrebin, Robin. “Inside Art: Early Selfies.” The New York Times, February 26, 2016 [online]
Harris, Gareth and Shaw, Anny. “Gillian Wearing asks for a peek through people’s windows”, The Art Newspaper, February 18, 2016, [online]
“HOUSE 2016 – call to participate in Gillian Wearing collaborative film project.” Photoworks, February 17, 2016, [online]
Gosee Creative News Services. “Turner Prize Winner Gillian Wearing Is Reaching Out To The Public For a Global Film Collaboration – ‘A View of the World From Your Window”, February 18, 2016, [online]
Miller, Ben. “Gillian Wearing’s windows, Laurie Anderson’s music for dogs, and Lou Reed’s guitars to feature in Brighton Festival 2016”, Culture24, February 17, 2016, [online]
Perlson, Hili. “Got a Room with a view? Artist Gillian Wearing Wants Your Footage”, artnet News, February 15, 2016, [online]
2015
“Preview Art Basel Miami Beach: 10 Works By Artists Who Have Altered the Way We Perceive Our World and Ourselves” Art Dealers Association of America. November 2015. [online]
Page, Jemma. “One-off event in Nottingham hosted by Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing hopes to tackle shyness.” Nottingham Post, October 30, 2015. [online]
Duguid, Hannah. “Gillian Wearing: 'Having to talk to a group makes me very uncomfortable’.” Independent, October 30, 2015. [online]
Miller, Ben. “Museums at Night October 2015: Gillian Wearing on the Shy Convention at Backlit Nottingham.” Culture24, October 28, 2015. [online]
“Leading Contemporary Artists Light Up Museums At Night Festival.” blooloop, October 15, 2015 [online]
Saltzman, Lisa. “Daguerreotypes: fugitive subjects, contemporary objects,” University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2015. pp. 49,130-31, 132, 135, 141, 143-149; Ill. pp. 131, 147
Ferguson, Russell. “Perfect Likeness,” Hammer Museum & Delmonico Books, Los Angeles, pp. 56, 58, 59
2014
Okolosie, Lola. “‘Hooray for single mothers – and Gillian Wearing’s celebration of them.” The Guardian, October 31, 2014
Brown, Graeme. “New statue unveiled outside Library of Birmingham.” Birmingham Post, October 30, 2014
Brown, Mark. “Ordinary Birmingham family to be immortalised in city centre statue.” The Guardian, October 29, 2014
Aspden, Peter. “Statue of a family: by Gillian Wearing.” www.ft.com, July 18, 2014
Gopnik, Blake. “Daily Pic: Gillian Wearing and the Shield of Power.” www.blogs.artinfo.com, June 5, 2014
Gavin, Francesca. “Gillian Wearing: Your Views.” Nowness, June 3, 2014
2013
Kemmerer, Allison N., and Michelle Lamuniere. “Gillian Wearing.” Exposure, Spring 2013 issue, p. 27
Jury, Louise. “Trainee florist picked at random to be face of the Tube.” The London Evening Standard, June 5
Jones, Jonathan. “Will the digital age kill off art?” The Guardian, July 2
2012
Adams, Tim. “Gillian Wearing: ‘I’ve always been a bit of a listener.” The guardian (UK), March 3
Singer, Reid. “Gillian Wearing is No Good at Keeping Secrets.” Artinfo.com, March 26
Abbott, Kate. “Gillian Wearing takeover: welcome to a week of secrets.” The Guardian (uk), March 26
ed. “Gillian Wearing takeover: How would you dance in public?” The Guardian (UK), March 26
ed. “Gillian Wearing takeover: the behind the mask – the Self Portraits.” The Guardian, March 27
ed. “Gillian Wearing.” Time Out London, March 28
O’Reilly, Sally. “Gillian Wearing.” Art Review, April, pp. 64-69
Januszczak, Waldemar. “Time to self-reflect.” The Sunday Times, April 1
Ure-Smith, Jane. “End Piece, Abika P3 / Gillian Wearing, Whitechapel Gallery, London.” The Financial Times.com, April 2
Sooke, Alastair. “Gillian Wearing, Whitechapel Gallery, review.” The Telegraph, April 2
Smart, Alastair. “Gillian Wearing, at Whitechapel, Seven Magazine review. “The Telegraph, April 5
Hamilton, Adrian. “A YBA who’s still causing a big sensation.” The Independent, April 9
Corwin, William. “In Conversation. Gillian Wearing with William Corwin.” The Brooklyn Rail, September 9
2011
Laera, Margherita. “Le Dive Dell’ Arte.” Velvet, April, p. 158
Yablonsky, Linda. “Gillian Wearing’s True Stories,” New York Times T Magazine, May 12
Smith, Roberta. “Gillian Wearing: People,” New York Times, May 13, p. C25
Bryant, Eric. “Gillian Wearing’s Role-Playing Games,” artinfo.com, May 9
Hirsch, Faye. “Lawler, Wearing Put Women on Top at Gallery Week,” Art in America, May 10
Galperina, Marina. “Artist Gillian Wearing Puts on Other People.” Flavorwire, May 25
Gopnik, Blake. “The 10 Most Important Artists of Today.” Newsweek/The Dailybeast.com, June 13 & 20, pp. 56-58
Miranda, Carolina A., “This week: Must See Arts in the City.” WNYC, June 16
Ed. “Gillian Wearing: People / Helen Cole: We See Fireworks” TWNY (This Week in New York), June 8
Grant, Adriana. “The Talent Show.” Visual Art Source, July, 2011
Foster, Kenneth J., “Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well.” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2011, p. 87
Enright, Robert. “Gillian Wearing: The Art of Everyday Illumination.” Border Crossings, 2011, issue no. 119, pp. 26-43 and cover (illust.)
Princenthal, Nancy. “Gillian Wearing.” Art in America, September, 2011, pp. 129-130 (illust.)
2010
Corris, Michael, Hunt, John Dixon, & David Lomas, Art, Word and Image: 2,000 Years of Visual/Textual Interaction, London, Reaktion Books, 2010, pp. 279 & 282
Stiles, Kristine and Selz, Peter, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 2008
Schwabsky, Barry, Turner Prize: A Retrospective 1984-2006, Artforum, January 2008, p.277
Zellen, Jody, Gillian Wearing, Artillery, September?October 2008, p.53
English (US)

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